[maemo-developers] Accessing GPS data remotely

[From: tz]

minigpsd listens on all ports and is in extras and designed as a
replacement for osso-gpsd.

It has its own launcher since it also logs (to kml files with NMEA and
external sources to XML comments within)

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Andrew Daviel <advax at triumf.ca> wrote:
>
> I want to access the GPS data from my N810 from a Linux laptop over WiFi.
> (or, possibly, Bluetooth or the USB cable)
>
> The "regular" gpsd server listens on 2947 on all interfaces, so that I
> should be able to just run cgps or xgps on the laptop. But gpsd on the
> N810 seems to only listen on loopback.
>
> Is there any config item to change this behaviour ?
> Should I file a bug report ?
>
> It seems silly to have to write extra interface applications when the
> existing server ought to do it directly.
>
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